RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has provided more than $96 billion in humanitarian aid and assistance to 167 nations worldwide from 1996 to 2023, Arab media reported on Thursday.
This was stated by Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeeah, the general supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) during an interaction with media persons, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
KSA has provided $96 billion in humanitarian aid to 167 nations worldwide
Al-Rabeeah said that KSrelief goals to be a leading global center for humanitarian assistance and highlighted its central values of impartiality, quality, transparency, professionalism, initiative, and building partnerships.
He said that the center has executed over 2,374 projects worth of $6.2 billion in 91 countries worldwide.
Al-Rabeeah added that among KSrelief’s priorities was support for more than 885 projects for women and 815 for children across the world. He maintained that the humanitarian other main projects include the work of Masam, which neutralized 402,000 land mines in Yemen placed by Houthi militia, as well as the delivery of prosthetic limbs for civilians wounded in the war.
He added Saudi Arabia hosts more than 1 million refugees from Syria, Yemen, and Myanmar, who are provided employment, free healthcare, and education. He further said the Kingdom wants to integrate the refugees into native society.
